The Coming Tribulation (Santosh Poonen)

Christians will be persecuted. We know this from God’s Word (Matthew 24; II Timothy 3:1,12, etc.), and from the fact that Christians have been and are being persecuted even today. If it was the last hour in John’s time (I John 2:15-18), then we are in the dying minutes of time. Satan’s trick: “If you can’t beat ’em join ’em!” (II Timothy 3:2-5) As the world demonstrates increased lawlessness, most “Christians” will demonstrate a cooling in their love (Matthew 24:12,24). Four Types of Lovers: Lovers of Self: boastful and arrogant; abusive in speech (revilers); disobedient to parents; ungrateful, unloving, and irreconcilable; brutal, malicious gossips; Lovers of money: Pharisees (Matthew 16:13-15); Lovers of pleasure: unholy; without self-control; Lovers of God: those with a pure devotion to God (James 4:4, I John 2:15). The most prominent sign of the end times is that Satan will present “another Jesus” (Matthew 24:5,11,23,24,26) — promoting religiosity mixed with Self, money, and pleasure! Babylon is built as a result of spiritual immorality (Genesis 11; Revelation 17-19).